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A review of the book "Ilon Musk"-Walter Isexon before the book reacted to the mask just as one of the Pleicadials of American millionaire businessmen. But when I read the book, the idea came that the dude was unrealistically cool, I don’t even know who else did or create this. His one life would be enough for a dozen. The book traditionally begins with parents, childhood.

As always, everything there is not without problems both in relations with the father by the way, this continues to this day, and with peers. Further, moving from South Africa, institute. Already starting from his student years, Musk shows an outstanding entrepreneurial and innovative vein. It is funny that he went the same path of the founder as Jobs at one time - he was thrown out of the leadership of the first companies that he created and where he attracted investors.

But still made good money on this. And this continues even when he has already become a billionaire! Reading the book, immediately recalled the phrase “Skin in the game”, Musk in all its businesses behaves exactly as if he had his whole life at stake. And of course, he demanded the same return from his subordinates who did not agree with this or was lazy, he immediately quit him.

To his surprise, he learned that the first of his current galaxy of companies was Space X. Before the book was sure that it was Tesla, but it turned out that he did not create Tesla at all, but was simply the main investor. With Space X, of course, a very interesting story, starting with his trip to Russia to buy missiles: how he describes a meeting in a restaurant with some toothless dealers from Roscosmos: ...

Continuing the first unsuccessful tests of his missiles somewhere on military bases in the Pacific Ocean. And when now you see what he has achieved in these 20 years, you just admire. It is very interesting to read how he optimized the costs of missiles, this is really fun, how they refused to buy some licensed cooling systems for crazy hundreds of thousands, making them from home split systems in September-announces the Starship project, the ship will have to accommodate !!!

An interesting point: when discussing the device of the ship, it offers to use stainless steel. But engineers claim that this bad choice is certainly not suitable. But he insists, forcing him to make calculations ... and, Bingo! That's how he could know?! Maybe he really is an alien Open AI - had a direct part in the creation of this company. It all started with the fact that he was friends with the creator of Google, Larry Page, and they had serious disagreements regarding the development of AI and the need to regulate it.

Azimov in terms of ensuring the security of mankind from AI. In general, when Google buys Deepmind Musk is seriously alarmed by the fact that AI can become controlled by large corporations and, together with Altman, are thinking of creating Openai, gives a lot of money for it. He quarrels with Page when he lured Sutkeever and a certain Karpatov. Well, then Musk is already swearing with Altman, because he considers it not groundless that Altman has moved away from the original idea of ​​creating a company - openness and free of AI.

As we already know, their paths eventually dispersed and at present Musk has created its own neural network. He generally believes that there should be many AI systems. Tesla is of course perhaps the most exciting part of the book for me. Firstly, I found out that Musk did not create Tesla, but at first he simply acted as an investor. And then, he simply threw out of Tesla its founders, as it once did with him in his companies.

Secondly, the history of Tesla’s development under the guidance of a mask is very exciting and inspiring. Starting, from the first steps of the mask in the auto industry, continuing that in the year he was on the verge of bankruptcy himself and, accordingly, the question was about the further existence of Tesla in principle, ending with the ambitious plans for the production of the year, when Musk again transferred all processes to manual control.

The history of the year is very interesting. So, Tesla needed a car per month, but nothing happened. At the beginning of the year, the promotion at the top and they begin to shorten them ... By the way, I remember these funny times, when the people actively shorted Tesla, and then they were taken into one gate ... If even Timofei Martynov was not mistaken then, then indulged in this; Well, then these shorts then very angry with the mask.

The fact is that then the SD allocated a compensation package of the mask, but if the shares are reached a specific goal. As a result, the mask includes manual control and begins to control the entire production process directly in the workshop, even how many bolts are needed, calculated the load in the accident ... I corrected the work of robots, literally manually copied the program code ...

I changed all the technical regulations. Already in May, Tesla produced a car per day. The shortists were delighted, because the plan was not fulfilled, however, Musk found a way out - due to the lack of the opportunity to build new plants, he began to build tents and arranged assembly conveyors directly in them. Realizing that the task has been completed, Musk just from the factory sits on the plane and flies to Spain for a brother’s wedding as a saffer.

He is 48 years old! And from a dude, energy rushes like from a volcano in Kamchatka!Another interesting story with Tesla. He somehow sat in a working office and played with a small model of the car, dismantled it and thought, why not at real cars pour the body as a whole. As a result - now, some models of Tesla are pouring the front and rear parts of the body, which very strongly simplifies and accelerates the production process.

And one more funny story. It turns out that Bill Gates participated in Tesla’s shares ... and he lost $ 1.5 billion !!! A few years after this story, Gates came to a mask with a proposal to invest his charity fund is the one in which Buffete also invested in many other billionaires. Musk asked him: is that story true? Gates said that yes, this is true - Shortil and lost.

Musk got angry very strongly, began to heat him and troll on Twitter. But it seems like Musk gave money for charity. Gates really respects the mask for his contribution to innovation and sometimes defended him publicly. But at the same time, Gates does not understand the hobby of Mask Mars and his desire to send people there. Gates was very surprised when he found out that the mask has ...

attention ... no secretary !!! You can imagine that one of the richest people on the planet does not have a personal secretary. Solarcity - gave the idea and money for it to his cousins. As the company developed, he criticized them, proving his vision. As a result, I bought the company to Tesla, which turned out to be not a very successful idea, because he had to justify this acquisition before Tesla's shareholders.

He changed the company's management very often and quickly, setting their tasks and in case of misunderstanding or failure he immediately dismissed. As a result, there is an episode in the book when he moved to manual control mode-he personally decided to optimize the process of installing solar panels on the roofs of houses ... It was funny, and most importantly, it was unsuccessful.

And as soon as the court sided with the mask in the purchase of the company on Tesla, Musk immediately lost interest in it. The Boring Company-invested a million. I remember the video on Yutube, where they built a tunnel somewhere in Las Vegas and drove people on it on Tesla. Then this did not make any impression on me, rather the opposite-it seemed the most unpleasant idea to ride some narrow tunnel ...

And if it happened, a fire, smoke ... Then only the corpses are collected. Hyperloop is another mask. But here only his idea, he did not invest and did not develop the project itself. He was picked up by others, but so far it seems unsuccessfully. Although the idea itself is cool, I believe that difficult and very expensive. Starlink - fired the whole team, taking engineers from SPACH - reduced the size of the satellites, simplified the scheme, etc.

And again the Musk intervened, optimizing everything. He boldly moves ideas, taking all responsibility. Twitter the ending of the book is dedicated to the purchase of Twitter. There are interesting moments, for example, how the mask threw the previous management on the payment of bonuses, the time was literally for minutes, thereby saved the Musk like about a million. But the stories with Twitter have a lot of space, like no other story from the book.

Apparently this is due to the fact that Aisekson just at that moment began to write a biography of the mask and literally saw everything with his own eyes. At the same time, everything is described in such detail that sometimes you think, why write about it, who said what to whom and looked like that. In general, in my opinion, this is just the most interesting. Musk and politics - now, seeing that Musk is doing Trump during the second term, it is very strange to read that in the year Musk criticized Trump, considering it a trepach.

He considers this conflict very dangerous for the whole world. At some point, he cut down Starlink, which was used to attack unmanned boats on the Black Sea Fleet. Musk and family-Dude is not undergoing-several marriages, many, many children. True with children, not everything is simple-there are transgender and autists, but there are also some young almost geniuses. As a result, almost simultaneously, children from different women are born.

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